Political Liberals Vs Religious Converatives

[Digging4Truth]

With apologies to OPII for the use of the terms.

**WARNING***
This thread is, admittedly, speaking in terms of broad generalities. Not all people from any group are the same. There are nice & mean people in every single group you could define (except the groups of nice & mean people I guess) :) But.. please do not try to tie me into a "not all ******** people are mean etc" banter. I am aware of that and this thread is, I repeat, speaking in broad generalities.


I was reading Deacon Blues recent thread "Liberals Always Need Someone To Hate" and a thought suddenly occurred to me. Deacon was asking why Liberals are so mean or some similar expression of that question. I immediately thought "he must be talking about politically liberal individuals because that isn't the case with religiously liberal individuals (generally speaking of course) "

And then I thought... in the religious realm if one side or the other is known for their vitriol & venom it is the conservative side. I found that odd that in politics & religion two difference sides are known for the same thing.

So... I wondered why.

My thoughts on that question, so far, are these...

People from both politically liberal and religiously conservative groups who are known for their "meanness" have something in common. (Please note that I did not label ALL politically liberal or religiously conservative people as mean. I said PEOPLE from both groups who ARE known for their meanness)

Your average "mean" political liberal is that way because they have a way of thinking and they want you to live that way and it angers them that you don't jump on board with all the high taxes and over the top regulations etc.

Your average "mean" religious conservative is that way for similar reasoning.

Both groups are angry because they have a thought process and they feel you should follow that line of thinking and it makes them attack because you don't line your daily life up to their way of thinking.

One group tells you that you are going to destroy the earth if you don't do what they think you should do.
The other group tells you that you are going to be destroyed in hell if you don't do what they think you should do.
But the common value is that they have a way of living in their minds and they feel you should follow that way of living and it angers them when you do not follow suit.

Your thoughts?